Your Healthcare is in the ToiletAnd They’re Ready to Flush ItStephen Borowsky, M.D., ’62, who practiced medicine for 24
years, analyzes the healthcare system, its history and flaws, as well
as the roles of politicians and the businessmen who run healthcare.
Xlibris Corporation • 112 pages • $19.99

The Blossoms Are The Ghosts at the WeddingSelected Poems & Essays
Essayist, poet and sculptor Tom Jay ’65 writes on topics
from etymology to ecology, “the spooky verge between
language and nature, water dowsing to the creation of art.”
Empty Bowl Press • 165 pages • $15

All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn’t)Inside The New York Times Op-Ed PageJerelle Kraus ’65, The New York Times’ op-ed art director for
13 years, provides insider anecdotes, focusing on the “rule-dissolving
decades when op-ed came into its own.”
Columbia University Press • 280 pages • $34.95

Rural Resistance in the Land of ZapataThe Jaramillista Movement and the Myth of Pax Priísta, 1940-1962
Using campesino testimony and state surveillance reports, Tanalís
Padilla ’95 details this agrarian mobilization in Morales, Mexico,
including the the expansion of Zapata’s legacy.
Duke University Press • 286 pages • $22.95

Murder Afoot: A Paris Mystery
In Professor Emeritus Virginia Crosby’s second novel, Ondine
Jellicoe, a retired professor living in Paris, is drawn into another
investigation, this time at the gathering of an estranged American
family dominated by a rich, tyrannical artist.
PublishAmerica, 2008 • 359 pages • $29.95

The American West at RiskScience, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery
Geology Professor Richard Hazlett coedits this work about the
environmental challenges in the Western U.S. and strategies to
“salvage what is left.” An Amazon.com “Best Book of 2008.”
Oxford University Press • 620 pages • $35

Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution
Anthropology Professor Pardis Mahdavi examines the daily lives
of young, urban Iranians who are using partying and sex as a form
of political rebellion to undermine the government, in a country
where dancing and drinking can mean arrest and punishment.
Stanford University Press • 336 pages • $27.95